The Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by creating a hard link in a directory on which "chown" is called recursively by the OpenRC service script.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-06T23:00:00

Updated: 2017-11-13T10:57:01

Reserved: 2017-11-06T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-16638

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-11-06T23:29:00.297

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2017-16638

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE